Abdul Rahman al-Nigeri

Abdul Rahman al-Nigeri (died 19 January 2013) was an al-Mourabitoun leader who was the leader of the In Amenas hostage crisis.

Biography
Abdul Rahman al-Nigeri was born to a tribe of Arabs in Niger, and he joined the Salafist Group for Preaching and Combat (GSPC) in Azawad during first half of 2005 before the group officially joined al-Qaeda the next year. In June 2005, he led a GSPC team that attacked the Lamghiti barracks in northern Mauritania, killing 17 Mauritanian Army soldiers, and he became a senior lieutenant under Mokhtar Belmokhtar, leading his special operations forces of al-Mourabitoun. In January 2013, he led the takeover of the In Amenas natural gas plant in Algeria, taking almost 800 workers hostage; he was killed when the Algerian Army stormed the plant and killed 29 militants.